Archive January 2019

The King County Superior Court, which recently moved off of the State’s legacy case management system, SCOMIS, in favor of a platform from Journal Technologies called KC-JAMS, has made a name change! Due to a potential lawsuit from another entity called JAMS, King County decided to switch to the...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s child protection law does not extend to fetuses or the unborn; consequently, they are excluded from being considered victims of parental neglect. From the The Morning Call: “The Supreme Court’s main opinion said the law’s definition of a child does...

Pacific Gas & Electric’s alleged liability in starting a disastrous wildfire that ravaged California in late 2018 may be exacerbated by a previous criminal sentence. PG&E was placed on five years of probation in 2017 after a criminal conviction stemming from the 2010 explosion of one of its natural...

The Washington State legislature passed Senate Bill 6037, a revision of The Uniform Parentage Act, in early 2018 and which will go into effect on January 1st, 2019. The revision of the law “necessitates changes to King County family law procedures and the creation of new case types. The...